spiritual attack

[mike74]

hi could anyone give me a discription of what spiritual attack is.
i got real paranoid shortly after i had been to one of the most amazing services of my life, right after i was on cloud nine but then i started to get feelings that everyone in the church thought i was a sex maniac(lol) i started to feel more and more worthless and self hating because people were thinking this about me, i was up all night and just wanted to die, in the morning i wrote the vicar an email telling him he was wrong and that i was angry with him and that i wanted to pull my own flesh off if thats what people thought of me. (lol) seems funny now but he was very worried for me as you can imagine. the paranoia went away a day later and ive felt fine since 4 weeks, and ive had a long talk with the vacar who is my friend and thats great, it took a lot to back to church the next week but i knew i had to because i cant have anything coming between me and jesus, it feels like an attack to stop me going to church. but i dont even know what aspiritual attack is, any advice would be great
mike..

 

[Zoness]

Well I don't know if could define spiritual attacks but this looks like one if there ever was one. I've never had this sort of situation happent to me so my advice may be a little invalid but I guess you should just try to pray often and distract your mind from your troubling thoughts. Have you considered trying a different church for a week? That might help as well.

 

[ANM29]

This is an spiritual attack. The enemy is constantly looking for a door to enter to steal our joy and make us doubt the Lord and everything else to keep us away from God. You need to verbally rebuke the devil when this happens..tell him "The Lord rebukes him and he has no power over you and to flee your mind, life, home, etc".

Don't expect him to stop his attacks on you. God won't let him take you under, but there will be times it may feel like the enemy is taking you under. Expect trials and tests, think it not strange when the fiery darts are thrown at you and on you. Fire either purifies or destroys..and God won't allow it to destroy you..He will use the devils own strategies to increase your inner man over time.

He will do anything to keep us from becoming more intimate with God. I have found that in the times when he thought he was destroying me, I was being pushed closer and closer to my God. We will either at times want to run away from God, or run closer to him. Run to him even more in these times, and your relationship with God will become closer over time..

 

[mike74]

cheers ANM29 just reading that makes so much sense. also zones

Have you considered trying a different church for a week?

i have decided to stick to this one church and i feel connected with it, thats why it would be easy to break me away from this church and that would be it for me, your 2 posts have given me loads of ansaws, and put light were there was dark cheers guys..

 

[Zoness]

i have decided to stick to this one church and i feel connected with it, thats why it would be easy to break me away from this church and that would be it for me, your 2 posts have given me loads of ansaws, and put light were there was dark cheers guys..

Well then if you feel comfortable STICK WITH IT! The devil cannot take away the connection you feel from that church, he can trick you but he is powerless in the face of God!

Glad we could help

 

[ANM29]

cheers ANM29 just reading that makes so much sense. also zones

i have decided to stick to this one church and i feel connected with it, thats why it would be easy to break me away from this church and that would be it for me, your 2 posts have given me loads of ansaws, and put light were there was dark cheers guys..

 

[Cris413]

good posts...spiritual attack can range from that small whisper of doubt to a full scale blitz...but as ANM pointed out...rebuke the enemy in Jesus' name...

and put on the full armour of God:

Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Eph 6:13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Eph 6:15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
Eph 6:18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints--

And I'm always comforted in this:

Joh 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
Joh 10:28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.
Joh 10:30 I and My Father are one."

 

[Mathetes the kerux]

If the attack came concerning that church . . . then it very well may be that the enemy doesn't want you to go THERE . . . which in my book would make me think that you SHOULD go there!

A good basic book to start with is

Deliver Us from Evil
by Don Basham

and follow it with

The Adversary
by Mark Bubeck

Overcoming the Adversary
by Mark Bubeck

Good and sound . . . not all off in excess.

 

[e. barrett]

If the attack came concerning that church . . . then it very well may be that the enemy doesn't want you to go THERE . . . which in my book would make me think that you SHOULD go there!

This is really good advice. I don't know if you were under spiritual attack or not, but if the devil is trying to distract you from something you should take it as a compliment that you're on the right path! Which, of course, means sticking to what you were doing before the attack.

The devil never attacks someone who isn't moving towards God.